🇷🇺🇻🇪🇨🇺⁉️ — TRACKED: A Russian Ilyushin Il-76TD (RA-79765) has departed Caracas, Venezuela, and is en route to Havana, Cuba.

➡️This same aircraft, which landed in Caracas three days ago, has been identified in flight monitoring reports as being suspected of transporting arms from Russia to Venezuela.

➡️These claims regarding its cargo remain unverified by official sources.

🇷🇺🇨🇺🇳🇮⁉️ — TRACKED: The Russian Ilyushin Il-76TD cargo aircraft, registration RA-78765, has departed from Havana, Cuba.

➡️Its confirmed destination is Managua, Nicaragua.

🇱🇹🇧🇾 Balloons flying into Lithuania from Belarusian airspace are impeding operations at the Vilnius Airport.

🇷🇺 ISW continues to assess that Russia is increasingly engaging in covert and overt attacks against Europe and that ongoing Russian airspace violations and non-conventional activity are likely part of ”Phase Zero” — Russia’s broader informational and psychological condition-setting phase – to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.

🇧🇾🇺🇸 ISW also continues to assess that Belarus is Russia’s de facto cobelligerent in the war in Ukraine, thus, Belarusian incursions into NATO airspace are part of Russia’s broader Phase Zero effort

🔗 ISW

🇺🇸❌🇷🇴 The Romanian ministry of defense (MoD) has confirmed the story published by KyivPost.

The MoD stated that only 1000 American troops will remain in the country, which is a far bigger withdrawal than told by the Ukrainian newspaper.

Currently there are 2000 American troops in Romania, the majority deployed at the Mihail Kogălniceanu airbase in Constanța county close to the Black Sea. The rest are spread out between the airbase at Câmpia Turzii and the Deveselu Aegis anti-missile shield.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇺🇸❌🇧🇷 The U.S. Senate today voted 52-48 to end a national emergency declared by the Trump Administration which allowed them to impose 50% tariffs on goods entering the United States from Brazil.

🔗 OSINT Defender

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The situation of the Ukrainian Army in Pokrovsk worsens.

Russian troops have broken out of the city's western outskirts and are moving north to close the pocket. In the city's center, Russian DRGs were spotted at the city's northernmost limits towards the city of Rodinskoe.

In Myrnograd, Russian troops have entered the city from three sides. Ukrainian troops have still not been ordered to withdraw. Instead, the Commander-in-Chief, Alexandr Syrsky, is bringing reinforcements.

The siege of Mariupol saw ~2.800 Ukrainian troops surrender. Pokrovsk-Myrnograd may top Mariupol at this rate.

@CIG_telegram

🇧🇷 The largest police operation in Rio de Janeiro’s history against the Comando Vermelho criminal faction is underway. So far, 64 people (including 4 police officers) have been killed and 80+ arrested. The faction is retaliating by blocking major roads, the Rio governor said.

🔗 Faytuks Network

🇧🇷🇧🇷 — 👮 During the mega-operation in the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) against the criminal group Comando Vermelho (CV), a “wall” was set up by the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) to eliminate traffickers fleeing through forest trails from the advance of other local units and battalions

"All the police work was carried out with the aim of enforcing the arrest warrants, which is why the number of arrests was also very large. That was the choice of those who decided to surrender. They were arrested, taken to the police station, and there the arrest warrant was executed along with the charges caught in the act. Now, the criminals chose to confront the State and deliberately, cruelly, and violently attacked our officers. Four police officers were killed and about ten others were injured in this clash. So, the victims of yesterday’s operation are the four innocent people who were wounded and our four officers who unfortunately lost their lives.

We deployed the troops across the terrain. The key difference, compared to the images showing heavily armed criminals seeking refuge in the forested area, was the incursion of BOPE agents into the highest part of the mountain that separates the two communities. This maneuver created what we call the ‘BOPE wall,’ a containment line formed by officers who pushed the criminals toward the top of the mountain.

The objective was to protect the population and ensure the physical safety of the residents of Alemão and Penha. Most of the clashes, or practically all of them, took place in the forested area.”

❗️ This strategy aimed to prevent scenes like those from 2010, which shocked the world, showing traffickers escaping through the forest during the military and police occupation of the Complexo do Alemão.

🇺🇦❌🇨🇺 — Ukraine closes its embassy in Cuba after accusing the regime of indifference to the mass recruitment of Cubans by the Russian army, according to Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.

💥 Sybiha stated that Havana’s silence makes it complicit in Russian aggression, recalling that Díaz-Canel publicly wished “success” to Putin in the war.

Today, Ukraine voted against the UNGA resolution on the “Necessity of ending U.S. embargo against Cuba”.

This move is not sudden. And it has serious reasons.

We remember Cuban President’s wish of “success” to Putin in his war of aggression against Ukraine. We heard it well.

This year, we decided to close our embassy in Havana and downgrade our diplomatic ties.

Our vote is not against the Cuban people—we respect their right to live in prosperity.

It is against the inaction of Cuba’s authorities in response to massive recruitment of Cuban citizens to the Russian occupation army.

Thousands of them have signed contracts, joining the ranks of soldiers directly engaged in combat operations on Ukrainian soil.

The unwillingness of Havana to stop massive deployment of its nationals in the Russian war against Ukraine constitutes complicity in aggression and must be condemned in the strongest terms.

Ukraine will always oppose such a practice and defend the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.

Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 (@andrii_sybiha) 🖇

🇧🇴🤝🇸🇻 — The president-elect of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, confirmed that he has requested assistance from Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele to address the serious security crisis and the collapsed prison system currently affecting the Andean country.

⚡️ According to Rodrigo Paz, “the Bukele model is the key” to regaining control over public order.

“A very kind, very frank, very straightforward person. He wants to visit Bolivia and be present at my inauguration as president. And I asked him for help to build many prisons in the style of El Salvador.”